Mapping The Sky Above

NSKYC is an online project which aims to map the color of the sky above New York City. Why? Because Mike Bodge, the man behind the initiative, wonders how the average color of the New York sky looks like. NSKYC shows a large collection of webcam images of the Manhattan skyline and sky, updated with a new picture every five minutes. The website derives an HTML color code from every webcam image that determines the average color of the sky, and contributes to the analysis of the average sky of New York City in general. Bodge has also made available a Washington version, and I think that more cities will follow since he actively invites others to join his project and map their own cities. Check it out!

The issue, really, is the absence of the erotic city. It forces us to ask: what do our spaces reflect about our treatment of sexuality? Where are the public city brothels? Why aren’t we holding drunken orgy celebrations open to all? Post-‘Sins of the flesh’ West creates a public suppression of sexuality and eroticism. There…

How would it be to drive in the Google Street View car? The designers of F.A.T. built a fake Google Street View car and successfully provoked the activistic inhabitants of Berlin while driving around. The critique on Google increases. While Google was considered to be the most sympathetic and innovative company of last decade, currently…

You may have heard about the Google Art Project, a tool that gives people virtual tours through some of the finest and most famous museums in the world. But what about street art, our collective museum in public space? Street art has become a serious art form with artists such as Banksy selling pieces for good money.

Walkability is a subject many cities are increasingly getting involved with. Our legs are often overlooked when thinking about transport in the city, with municipalities passionately constructing bicycle lanes and roads as far as the eye can see whilst competely forgetting about the pedestrian’s needs. Instead of focusing on these forms of transport, Pontevedra in northwest Spain has been trying for the last 15 years to make their city more walker-friendly. To further improve walkability, they have created a subway-inspired map for pedestrians.